Waller County District Court Document Format Requirements

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Criminal cases

Digital evidence offered to the jury must use MP3 for audio, MP4 for video, and PDF for photographs and documents.

All digital recordings shall be offered into evidence before the jury formatted as follows: for audio, in MP3; for video, in MP4; for photographs and documents, portable document format (pdf).

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Civil cases

Exhibits must be pre-marked, and inadmissible material such as insurance information must be redacted.

Exhibits must be pre-marked with inadmissible matters redacted (e.g. insurance).

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Application

The application must be typed and contain the specified information.

Please prepare a typed application that contains the information listed below.

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Letter

The application must include a one-page business-letterhead letter explaining the applicant’s qualifications and any other important information.

Attach to your application a one page letter on your business letterhead outlining why you believe you are qualified to serve as a Contract Indigent Defense Attorney in the indicated area, as well as other information you believe to be important.

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The envelope containing the application must be marked “Indigent Attomey Application.”

Mark Envelopes: Indigent Attomey Application.

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Applicants must use a locally produced form substantially following the attached criminal-case indigent defense application instructions.

Attached is an instruction sheet for Application For Contract Indigent Defense Attorney for criminal cases. Please use a form that you may locally produce in substantially that format.

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Criminal cases

Each exhibit, including documents and photographs, must be marked unobtrusively on the lower right front.

All exhibits, including all documents and photographs, will be marked on the lower right front of the item in an unobtrusive location.

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Criminal cases

Multipage exhibits must be tightly clipped or stapled at the upper-left edge.

Exhibits with multiple pages will be tightly clipped or stapled at the upper left edge.

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An order or document containing an order must begin with “On this date, came on to be …” rather than a blank date line.

When formatting, preparing, and filing an order, or a document containing an order, do not start your Order with a date line reference, such as, “On this ___ day of _____, 20___, came on to be ….”. Just start it out as follows: “On this date, came on to be ….”.

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Documents with fill-in date blanks must use a single closing date line in the form “DATED: ___________________________.”

The better format is as shown below using a single date line. It is faster and cleaner. Therefore, for e-signatures and edating on “fill-in-the-date-blank” type documents, submit the date blanks in a format as follows: DATED: ___________________________

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Papers must be completed with a black or blue pen or a typewriter and printed carefully and legibly.

Fill out your papers using a black or blue ink pen or a typewriter. Print carefully and legibly.

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Submit the requested jury charge on a disc in a court-compatible WordPerfect 10 or 12 or Microsoft Word format; a flash drive or CD is acceptable, and the medium must not contain personal diary or children’s pictures.

Bring your requested jury charge on a disc in a format compatible to the Court's. That would be either WordPerfect 10 or 12, or Word in any level. A flash drive is helpful but a CD is OK if that is what you have. Whatever medium you give to the court, make sure that you don’t have your diary or pictures of your kids on it.

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Most edating apps and programs will drop in the date with a single action, in the proper format. Therefore, don’t use a date group at the beginning of your document; only at the end. If you feel compelled to use a date at the beginning, use a simple blank line.

Summary: A date group must not appear at the beginning of a document; a simple blank line may be used instead if a beginning date is included.

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On Search Warrants, Subpoenas, Orders for Assistance, Temporary Restraining Orders, and other documents requiring a “certification” statement and a time, the format should be as follows: ORDERED and Certified this date: _______________________ Time: ______________________

Summary: Search warrants, subpoenas, orders for assistance, temporary restraining orders, and other documents requiring certification and a time must use separate lines for the certification date and time.